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Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies

Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies

By : Kunal Sehgal, Nikolaos Thymianis
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Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies

Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies

4.5 (2)
By: Kunal Sehgal, Nikolaos Thymianis

Overview of this book

We've reached a point where all organizational data is connected through some network. With advancements and connectivity comes ever-evolving cyber threats - compromising sensitive data and access to vulnerable systems. Cybersecurity Blue Team Strategies is a comprehensive guide that will help you extend your cybersecurity knowledge and teach you to implement blue teams in your organization from scratch. Through the course of this book, you’ll learn defensive cybersecurity measures while thinking from an attacker's perspective. With this book, you'll be able to test and assess the effectiveness of your organization’s cybersecurity posture. No matter the medium your organization has chosen- cloud, on-premises, or hybrid, this book will provide an in-depth understanding of how cyber attackers can penetrate your systems and gain access to sensitive information. Beginning with a brief overview of the importance of a blue team, you’ll learn important techniques and best practices a cybersecurity operator or a blue team practitioner should be aware of. By understanding tools, processes, and operations, you’ll be equipped with evolving solutions and strategies to overcome cybersecurity challenges and successfully manage cyber threats to avoid adversaries. By the end of this book, you'll have enough exposure to blue team operations and be able to successfully set up a blue team in your organization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part 1:Establishing the Blue
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Part 3:Ask the Experts

Pitfalls to avoid while setting up a blue team

The most common way intelligence teams are formed is this: leadership decides their organization needs a blue team. Those in charge have either come to this conclusion because they were influenced by their peers or more often, those above them informed them that it was a need. Although there’s nothing inherently wrong with leadership deciding the organization needs a blue team, this top-down approach is extremely vulnerable to common mistakes that can undermine the credibility and efficacy of a blue team. However, the decision has been made, the die has been cast, and team building begins.

In these cases, the most common action is to promote a high performer from within – who has no background in information security – to lead the new blue team. That person, often carrying a strong incident response or network security background, attempts to fill the role by either falling back on what they know or reading as much...

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